[OT] E-mail vs. JIRA WAS: [patch][drlvm] Fix compilation on Linux/x86_64

[Salikh Zakirov <Sa...@Intel.com>]

Mikhail Fursov wrote:
> I do not like JIRA too, but sending patches by email is even worse:

> 1) There are a lot of opened JIRA issues. How to track them all by email?

Tracking can be done by replying to messages.
And if nobody cares about the patch, JIRA will not help -- patches in JIRA
rot with exactly the same rate as they do in e-mail.

> 2) New people have no access to the old email threads

Not true. Check out 
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.harmony.devel
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.harmony.devel

(by the way, I read/post using Gmane NNTP gateway, and this also gives
a fair amount of older postings).

> 3) Patches sometimes are too big to be sent by email.

Agreed. E-mail is not a silver bullet, though it comes close :)


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